Naqoyqatsi is the third in Godfrey Reggio's trilogy of documentary films, which was made in 2002. Like two previous movies "Koyaaniqatsi" (1983) and Powaqqatsi (1988), it features series of images of our industrialized era. The title itself is taken from Hopi language which translates as "Life As War".
Overall the movie shows a variety of cliches like dollar sign equals money, Madonna equals fame, and so on. However, the main idea is to show how bad wars are by giving us unpromising and realistic photos of the true horror of wars.
The idea behind this film is deep, there is thinking at what man has done to the planet. Godfrey Reggio thinks that mankind is a threat to Earth - it would be better if there were no humans on the planet. Naqoyqatsi shows the pictures of troops, military vehicles and different explosions, so does it bring the idea that war was always our way of life?
Naqoyqatsi, along with the Wounded Soldier by Otto Dix and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, give a point that wars are cruel and destructive. To sum it up, those three relics are showing us the real bloody war story that humans need to know the truth about.
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